Film Review - The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Mohammad Rasoulof’s riveting thriller and scathing condemnation of the Iranian regime proves an urgent example of cinema as protest
At great personal risk, writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof made the Oscar-nominated The Seed of the Sacred Fig in secret, under the noses of the Iranian theocratic regime. The film had to be smuggled to Germany for post-production with editor Andrew Bird, and Rasoul…
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